PS: Sorry to make it up......

When the Christmas book-burning ceremony was over and Ferdinand was about to return to the palace, he received a message from the New World.

The Battle of Port-au-Prince is over.

"Hispaniola, it's finally quiet, it's good." Ferdinand looked at the report and nodded. However, the brow quickly furrowed again.

"Mashgat and Mora? How dare they? Ferdinand stared at the report for a moment, then shook his head.

"Sure enough, can't you still change the poem?"

These two nobles are well documented and registered.

Ferdinand knew about the two of them, because of the conflict with Columbus and the other nobles on the island - of course, there were only a dozen nobles left on Hispaniola - and then, unexpectedly, ...... Defected to the Indians?

What kind of brain circuit is this, Ferdinand was puzzled back then...... The history books specifically mention the chief of the Indian tribe and his daughter who defected to the western end of the island (could there be some problem here?). ）。 This tribe also has a name, which is the tribe of Magana. It was located on the western coast of the present-day Republic of Haiti, near what was later Port-au-Prince.

These two nobles, for some unknown reason, or because of the combination of all the reasons we can think of, in short, they developed a strong dissatisfaction with the status quo, but instead of taking the ship back to Spain to complain, like those nobles with an IQ online, they actually defected to the natives.

Because in the original history, Spain was a colonizer of the American continent and a second-rate army, entrusting the governor or volunteer explorers to organize their own troops, and there was this kind of chaos from the beginning.

For the nobles had their own troops, the nobles had private soldiers, the governors and explorers recruited volunteers and slaves, and the navigators had their own ships, ships and supplies......

Once this is torn up, the chickens and dogs will jump all of a sudden, and in serious cases, it is not impossible that the guns in the Caribbean Sea will continue day and night, and the sea will be full of boats, and it will be the Spaniards who are fighting the civil war themselves.

The most typical is a real civil war in South America between Pizarro and Diego de Almagro. It can be explained that it is too far away to control, but the more recent West Indies and Central America have also made this appearance, which is the pot of policy and military.

The question of policy has already been raised, and the Spanish army, which has theoretically been stationed on Hispaniola since 1493, is still the case with poor quality troops, peasants and recruits, or undisciplined troops, or even simply militias.

These second-rate troops are unable to maintain order, but they can often get into chaos.

However, in Ferdinand's Americas, this situation was contained, because in addition to the island of Hispaniola, Spain at this time in the Americas Newfoundland, Labrador, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New York, Panama South to Brazil and other places, all of which were pioneered by Ferdinand's cantonment corps, and successively increased troops.

Second-rate armies from Castile and part of Aragon were confined to the island of Hispaniola.

The first year of conquest of the Caribbean islands in 1495 was the first time Spain launched a real war in the Americas, with the Reclamation Corps and the Castilian Army slaughtering natives from east to west, and the Reclamation Corps under Columbus also expanding their power in the Caribbean and conquering Puerto Rico. The situation is very good.

Dominica was quickly flattened, and the Spaniards seized the gold mines in the interior entirely, but finally after careful exploration, they came to the disappointing conclusion that there was not much gold on the island.

The war and the spread of disease in Hispaniola reduced the island's Indian population from more than 90,000 (several thousand had died in the previous two years) to more than 70,000, and the island was finally brought under Spanish rule in 1495.

However, this process is indeed not simple, after all, it is the first time to try its skills, and there are pig teammates everywhere, the original second-rate troops are now spreading diseases, and many soldiers are suffering from syphilis, which is not the rule of law in such a far place in the New World. In addition, their military discipline has been on the island for a while, but it has become even more lax, falling almost to the level of the Calabrian militia.

It seems that it is indeed useful for the Cantonment Corps to constantly fight expansion wars, and it is easy to deviate from the trend of military development if it is not diligently crushed and abused, and it is easy to develop the scum-type inland troops of the late Ming Dynasty.

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In any case, the fact is that no sooner had Columbus returned than the two nobles fled to the Indians in the western part of the island. He also brought a small group of soldiers who followed him.

They also provided information to the Indians, who unfortunately did not understand the meaning of what they were saying.

This person is in Latin America, his mind is not clear, is there a halo of lower IQ in Latin America? Maybe it would be a little better in Cuba......

As soon as the two of them ran, the atmosphere on Hispaniola exploded.

Is this treason, okay?

It seems that these Indians must be conquered once and for all!

Although Columbus is gone, it turns out that Columbus's younger brother Bartholomew is much more administratively capable than him.

Hispaniola immediately declared martial law, and in absentia all defectors were declared treason and the death penalty, which naturally did not require trial.

The Reclamation Corps went out in large numbers to attack the Magana tribe in the westernmost part of Hispaniola.

The most effective and cost-effective way to deal with these Indians, especially when they are under the cover of the rainforest, is the plate armor and the set of spears and longbows.

When the Indians rushed in the open field, they formed a phalanx, fired a wave of arrows, and beckoned them with pikemen and sword and shield men, and the Indians knelt down.

Well, this refers to these weak Indians in Latin America, and the Iroquois and other tribes in North America are obviously stronger, but North America is the most powerful place in Spain, and even flintlock pistols are available! The Indian tribes in North America were a real primitive society at this time, and even the tribal alliance, a system that had been formed by the Chinese people 4,000 years ago, would have to wait 75 years for it to appear. By that time, most of North America had long since been conquered by Spain.

Ferdinand also improved the material, structure and trajectory of the bow and crossbow according to modern ballistics, and used hardwood and a small amount of steel as materials, and created a batch of powerful crossbows that could penetrate trees up to 15 centimeters thick—the "anti-terrorist weapon" of later generations. This weapon was not used in European warfare, nor against Indian cavalry, but mainly for the elimination of Indians in the rainforest, as well as some scattered groups.

With the help of plate armor, crossbows, and muskets, the Reclamation Corps captured the last of the Magana tribal villages in Port-au-Prince in early December, arresting the chief and his family. As for the two nobles, they have already regretted it and committed suicide in fear of sin, so they still have a whole corpse, otherwise who knows how to die?

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